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Mapping a Month of BBC vs the New York Times

Following in the footsteps of our last post, Mapping a Week in the Life of the World's News Media, we…

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Mapping A Week in the Life of the World's News Media

GDELT's ability to reach deeply into the geography of the world's local news media across 65 languages opens the door…

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World Bank Group Topical Taxonomy Now in GKG

We're excited to announce today that with the support of the World Bank Group we have incorporated the entire World…

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GDELT 2.0: Our Global World in Realtime

We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of the future of GDELT.  GDELT 2.0 debuts what we believe…

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Google Developer Group DevFestDC 2014

Kalev presented today at the Google Developer Group DevFest conference in Washington DC, DevFestDC 2014 on how the GDELT project makes use…

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Data Innovation DC Meetup

Felipe Hoffa, a Developer Advocate on big data at Google, gave a series of live demos at Tuesday's Data Innovation DC…

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Data Tactics: GDELT-Board and GDELT Country Network Dashboard

This guest post is by Amanda Traud, PhD, Data Scientist at L-3 Data Tactics.   The news media holds a prominent place…

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Communications of the ACM TECHNEWS: Can computers replace historians?

Today's Communications of the ACM's TECHNEWS roundup features BBC News' coverage of the GDELT pilot study on correlating the patterns of world history. Read the Communications…

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Topic Mining The World's News with GDELT with NGrams – Felipe Hoffa

Felipe Hoffa is a Developer Advocate on big data at Google, whose mission is "to inspire developers around the world to leverage…

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BBC: Can computers replace historians?

Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News writes this fantastic article about the GDELT pilot study on correlating the patterns of world history. Read…

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GDELT Celebrates 1 Million Downloads!

Its been six months since GDELT opened in its new home, supported by Google Ideas, and what an incredible six…

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Google Cloud Platform Blog on Patterns of World History Study

Felipe Hoffa wrote this great post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog with more technical detail on how BigQuery enabled…

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GigaOM Covers GDELT Patterns of World History Study

Derrick Harris of GigaOM covered the GDELT "Patterns of World History" study in this fantastic article. Read the Full Article.

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GDELT Makes Appearance at BigDataCampLA

Well-known big data trainer and consultant Lynn Langit used GDELT to demonstrate Google's BigQuery database platform in her presentation at…

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GDELT Makes Appearance at DevoxxUK

Javier Ramirez, one of the founders of Teowaki, and a Google Developers Expert, gave a presentation at DevoxxUK that featured an example of…

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GDELT Makes Appearance at Google I/O 2014 Developer Conference

Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani's talk at Google I/O 2014 titled "Predicting the future with the Google Cloud Platform" gives…

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GDELT Featured in May Roundup of Google Cloud Blog

The May 2014 roundup of the Google Cloud Blog prominently mentions GDELT's availability in Google's BigQuery database platform! Read the…

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Mapping the Syrian Conflict

Last week Palantir released the visualization below that it produced in collaboration with the Carter Center mapping conflict events in…

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Computing on the Entire Planet From the Cloud: GDELT Moves to Google Cloud Platform

We are incredibly excited to announce a transformative new chapter in GDELT’s evolution – its move to Google Cloud Platform…

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GDELT Now in a Museum Near You via NOAA’s Science on a Sphere!

Imagine an actual physical 6-foot-diameter globe floating before your very eyes, displaying every imaginable dataset about our planet. Created by…

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Visualizing Global GDELT Coverage

Looking at the map of global protests in 2013 as captured in GDELT that John Beieler created, I was struck…